Paul Tremblay's Blog, page 24

Hipsterbookclub review of NSTW

An in-depth review that pleases me very much.  File under good review:

"Modernizing the archetypal hardboiled detective story, Paul Tremblay mixes surrealism with traditional noir in his novel No Sleep till Wonderland. A conceptual twist on the genre amplifies conventional crime fiction and explores the mysterious power of the human mind." (Jessica Sycz)

Best American Fantasy 3 is out there!

The book has been out for a little bit, but I just got my contrib copies, so there:

My "The Two-Headed Girl" is in its pages.  Yay!

Check out one of the other stories, Ryan Boudinot's "Cardiology," about a town that shares one giant heart.

Olde Tyme Tremblay Gangsters?

I was at my Aunt's recently and she pulled out a box of old photos.  Really old photos.  The Tremblay side of my family has been pretty well mapped out back to 1650 in Quebec.  Now, the photos below don't go that far, only to the 1920s (out best estimate).  First up, my great-grandfather Damase Tremblay and his brother Gerard:

The note is written on the back of the photo.  Dig those crazy moonshine runnin' Tremblays!  Who knew?

And here's another picture of my great-grandfather Damase, the...

This week: South Hadley, Scituate, and Salem

I'm doing a triangle in Massachusetts later this coming week.

–March 4th, Thursday, 7pm (reading/signing)

Odyssey Bookstore (with Jedediah Berry), S. Hadley, MA

–March 5th, Friday, 7pm (reading/signing)

Front Street Book Shop, Scituate, MA

"Sleepless in Scituate"

–March 6th, Saturday, 1pm (reading/signing)

Cornerstone Bookstore, Salem, MA

Boston Globe: Who is the next face of Boston Crime fiction

Dave Zeltserman, Raffi Yessayan, Margaret Mclean, and little old me!  Big spread today in the Globe's G section. The article is online too!

"PAUL TREMBLAY

What if you're a private eye whose eyelids keep falling shut all the time?

That's the dilemma confronting Mark Genevich, the narcoleptic South Boston detective who is the protagonist of Paul Tremblay's novels "The Little Sleep'' (Holt, 2009) and "No Sleep Till Wonderland'' (Holt, out this month)."

Reading in Providence tonight

February 18th, Thursday, 7pm

Brown University Bookstore, Providence, RI

I'll be talking about missing fingers, missing uvulas, septum splints, clown music, and my two books.

NYC and Boskone

This past Tuesday I drove into NYC with Dave Zeltserman for a reading at the Mysterious Bookshop on Warren Street.   Dave and I walked the length of Manhattan Island, sort of.  Eventually, Nick Kaufmann and Dave Wellington showed up to walk us back to the other end to meet up with Alexa and have a great burger at Mudville 9.  The reading itself went very well.  So pleased to see Jen, Rob, Helen, Kirsten, Stephen, Matt, Devon, Evil Dave, Paul, Eugene, Rick, Carrie, and others in the...

No Sleep till Wonderland featured on Omnivoracious

Written by Jeff Vandermeer:

"Last year, Paul Tremblay's The Little Sleep introduced readers to Mark Genevich, a narcoleptic South Boston private investigator, one of the more unusual and compelling detectives in the recent history of mystery novels. Now Genevich is back in No Sleep Till Wonderland,"

A Dark Matter by Peter Straub

Peter Straub's A Dark Matter takes the setup that Stephen King turned into a horror trope: a group of friends face unspeakable horror as young 'uns then reconvene when they're old and damaged to finally defeat that unspeakable horror. Only Straub smartly plays it without the rematch. A Dark Matter isn't the coming of age take as described above, it's about age itself, and the events and people who shape us.

Lee the narrator is a middle-aged man, best selling novelist married to another Lee (...

My Boskone Schedule

Boskone!

Friday  6pm        Boston as Setting

Alexander Jablokov (M), Toni L. P. Kelner, Paul G. Tremblay

The subway line to Cambridge inspired H.P. Lovecraft to visions of subterranean Antarctic horror; Hal Clement drowned Beantown under dozens of feet of water. Why Boston? Who's writing about here lately? What scenic SFnal possibilities does our fair city present? How can you convey its charm to readers who have never felt Boston's balmy February breeze?

Friday  7pm   Seriously, Where *Do...